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28.0.50; problem with gui emacs minibuffer when starting emacsclient in tty

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: joakim <at> verona.se
Cc: 46649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46649: 28.0.50; problem with gui emacs minibuffer when starting emacsclient in tty
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:11:39 +0100

joakim <at> verona.se writes:

> - start a gui emacs
> - in a separate tty, start emacsclient -nw
> - go back to gui emacs, do m-x, or anything that affects the minibuffer
> the minibuffer is empty, and messages buffer gets an error message:
>
> face-attribute: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
>
> emacs is now close to useless, since any operation using the
> minibuffer is broken.

I'm unable to reproduce this, but perhaps there's something missing in
the recipe?

I tried:

emacs -Q -f server-start &
emacsclient -nw

Then I chose the GUI Emacs and said `M-x'.  Nothing in particular
happened -- it displayed `M-x' as normal.

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